{
  "id": 16908,
  "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/soulm8te-review-1236828635",
  "title": "‘Soulm8te’ Review: Fembot Goes Rogue in Polished but Predictable Tech Thriller",
  "summary": "Billed as a spun-off third entry in the “M3GAN” franchise, “Soulm8te” is to “Fatal Attraction” as M3GAN’s vehicles were to “Orphan” and “The Bad Seed” — a robotic replay of very familiar genre tropes. Here, a grieving widower working in tech agrees to try out a prototype of the titular “AI companion,” basically a beauteous […]",
  "authors": "Dharv2014",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T21:22:15.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "x-variety-ai",
  "source_name": "Variety (AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://variety.com/t/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16908",
  "original_url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/soulm8te-review-1236828635",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}